Thin magnetically soft wires for magnetic microsensors

Sensors

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 9216-9240

  Zhukova, Valentina ^a   Ipatov, Mihail ^a   Zhukov, Arcady ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b Parque Tecnologico de Miramon   (Spain)

Author keywords

Barkhausen jump; Glass coated microwires; Magnetization curves

Indexed keywords

BARKHAUSEN JUMPS; DOMAIN-WALL PROPAGATION; GIANT MAGNETO IMPEDANCE EFFECT; GLASS-COATED MICROWIRES; MAGNETIC CHARACTERISTIC; MAGNETIZATION CURVES; MAGNETO TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; SOFT MAGNETIC PROPERTIES;

MAGNETIC MATERIALS; MAGNETIC RECORDING; MAGNETOS; MICROSENSORS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WIRE;

MAGNETIZATION;

EID: 70849085141     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s91109216     Document Type: Review

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